Posted on 09/21/2005 9:44:32 PM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 - President Bush is focused on Hispanics, African-Americans and women to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and he may announce his choice for her seat on the Supreme Court as early as the court's opening days in October, Republican strategists said on Wednesday.
Republicans noted that it was still early in the process and that the strategists were putting forth a diverse selection of potential nominees in part to portray the White House as interested in people from politically important constituencies.
The timing of the announcement, strategists said, could allow a nominee to be confirmed as early as Thanksgiving and reflected the president's stated desire to move quickly. The strategists spoke on condition of anonymity because the president has ordered his aides and allies not to talk about internal deliberations over his choice for the court.
On Wednesday morning, the White House quickly rejected a suggestion by Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, that Mr. Bush delay the nomination and ask Justice O'Connor to stay on through the court's next term, which ends next June. Mr. Specter made the suggestion in a meeting with Mr. Bush and Senate leaders at the White House.
"The president respects Senator Specter and his opinions," Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, told reporters after the meeting. Nonetheless, Mr. McClellan said, "Justice O'Connor has expressed her desire to leave the court."
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Janice Rogers Brown, Janice Rogers Brown, Janice Rogers Brown, Janice Rogers Brown, Janice Rogers Brown, Janice Rogers Brown.
Hell no, the votes are not determined by the hearings. Few senators have the guts to do the right thing. They are moved only by their perception of getting re-elected. Nothing else matters to most of these boobs. A very few of them stand on principle, like Coburn from OK, Rep. Tancredo from CO and a handful more, but most are in love with the perks and power.
Response: Well if Bush has any decency he will select a truly "Diverse" person; i.e. a person who is Black, Asian, and Caucasian, who lived in Terra Del Fuego and started as a Catholic, dabbled in wicca, converted to the Protestant faith and is currently being taught the mysteries of the Jewish faith by a Rabbi.
Yeah? - well I say bull-hockey.
I bet these are the same strategists who were touting Edith Clement as a 'sure thing' when Dubya picked Roberts.
Huh? You really think he'll pick Madonna?
:-)
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 - President Bush is focused on Hispanics, African-Americans and women to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and he may announce his choice for her seat on the Supreme Court as early as the court's opening days in October, Republican strategists said on Wednesday."
Great! Miquel Estrada. The RATS had nothing on him back then and nothing on him now. The only thing they can do it hit him on experience. But that didn't stop Ginsburg either.
The dems whined about Roberts being a white man, and they will get what they wished for.
Janice Rogers Brown is my clear choice.
It doesn't really matter who the president nominates, the left will go beserk regardless. So he might as well nominate one to show them up for what they are.
Televised hearings, I most certainly do.
The left if run by special interest groups.
They wanted Judge Roberts DEFEATED soundly and the strategists on the left look like idiots before the nation (not just to us) for voting down this man who came across as Judicial Rock Star in the hearings.
Sadly, I do not think the substantive matters in the hearings decides the votes.
I would love to see Edith Jones nominated. My guess is that he might go for Edith "Joy" Clement. I believe she's from from Louisiana and has some bi-partisan support down there.
WOW! Great speech. We need JRB. She may be the only one who truly understands the depth of our nation's problem!
Yes, we need a minority nominee to give the Donks an opportunity to show off their racist tendencies.
The New York Times says the focus is on a minority and/or woman?
I have never been so certain of anything in my life now. It's definitely going to be Luttig.
The focus SHOULD be on who supports the constitution, but I
guess that doesn't count anymore.
I agree with you.
If the process that Bush carried out to select Robert's did not include serious consideration of whomever becomes his next selection, then that process was inadequate. We're only talking about a couple of weeks of time. Too little for the assessment of various candidates to have changed.
LOL!
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